Zara Tindall spends a fun day at the Cheltenham Festival

By Chloe Best

March 15, 2016

Zara Tindall trotted off to the Cheltenham Festival on Tuesday (Mar. 15) to join her friends for a fun afternoon out. The 34-year-old took in the opening races of the festival from a private enclosure.

Wearing a chic dark purple coat and co-ordinating hat, Zara sipped on champagne and chatted to friends including race horse owner Trevor Hemmings. The royal is a regular fixture at the annual festival, and previously attended every day of the four day event in 2015 with her husband
Mike Tindall.

Zara last visited the famous horse-racing stadium with Mike in November, where they watched on as her mom
Princess Anneopened a new grandstand. The five-and-a-half storey stand, named the Princess Royal Stand, is part of a $85 million investment in the arena.

The couple also
enjoyed a day out at the Magic Millions races in Australia in January, where Mike revealed that his daughter Mia shares her mother's love of horses. "Mia our daughter has inherited a love of horses, she has a Shetland pony and she enjoys it so I think her mom has passed that love on… me on the other hand, well I'm more of a football man," he told the Sydney Morning Herald.

Zara watched the races from a private enclosure and chatted with Trevor Hemmings

"Everyone is so different in how they get through competition," Zara told
The Telegraph in November. "But I think what everyone has in common is that you perform better if you can relax. Having Mia has definitely enabled me to relax more.

"There's definitely more highs being a mother than being in sport. One thing I do know, I make better decisions now. Before I'd have got on any old horse. Now I'm more selective. And when I see a steep slope, I go round it. Mind, I don't know if that's a product of motherhood or just being older."

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